Eliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, composer, and translator working at the intersection of the lyric and improvised music. The author of On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), Eliot has produced over a dozen albums, including American Thicket, Sweet Beyond Witness, Pavane, and Out of Our Systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in music from the New England Conservatory, and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Eliot’s poems and translations have appeared in journals such as California Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian, Jacket2, and Spoon River Poetry Review. He is also the sole founder and editor of The Bodily Press.